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Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…ywhere in Ohio. And eavesdropped on an Obama canvasser. I mean, I spent 45 minutes phone-banking the parking garage of a lowly San Diego field office with four children under nine years old hopped up on Doritos and doing laps around my folding chair, and even under those suboptimal circumstances I could tell right away that Obama’s data was even better than it was in 2008 and that there was hardcore focus on the 18- to 29-year-old set. And, mind y…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…g days at work. On Wednesday and Thursday he saw more than twice the usual number of patients at his abortion clinic, Aid For Women, in Kansas City, Kansas. But then, this has been an unusual few weeks. Since mid-June, Dr. Yeomans (and the other abortion providers in Kansas) have found themselves scrambling to see as many patients as possible before today; as of July 1, these facilities will not be able to offer abortion services until they show…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r 15 days and interrogated by special prosecutors who usually focus on Islamist militants. Reuters reports that as part of the backlash, “Al-Azhar, Egypt’s 1,000-year-old center of Islamic learning, said it would stand against gays in the way it stands against Islamist extremists.” In Slate, Ahmed El Hady and Scott Long report in-depth on the “moral panic” that has led to at least 57 arrests: Most of the detainees are held incommunicado, but one,…

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…oss the country. In one recent example, Patriot Mobile—a NAR 7 Mountains Dominionism-inspired phone company in Texas—bankrolled the campaigns of 11 candidates for school board in the suburbs of Ft. Worth in May 2022. They all won, and they subsequently took control of four school boards. In one school district (but probably not the last) 40 books were soon pulled from the shelves for “review.” It remains to be seen whether book burnings will becom…

Satanic FOIA Reveals Deep Confusion About 1st Amendment

By Joseph Laycock

…ic Temple were not among the included files, nor were any meeting notes or minutes discussing the Temple. The only data concerning what the monument committee thought about the Satanic monument are hinted at in e-mails to and from an executive assistant. In fact, reading through the files, I felt sympathy for this assistant, who dutifully relayed all phone messages from constituents to the legislature. This resulted in e-mails like: [John Doe] at…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ean for more than two decades, on Feb. 2 met with representatives of the Dominican Ministry of Tourism and Tourism Police at a hotel in Santo Domingo, the country’s capital. Representatives from the Dominican travel industry and Brewster’s husband, Bob Satawake, are among those who also attended the gathering. Religious groups have sharply criticized the campaign, with one accusing the Dominican government of adopting “an official policy to sell t…

The Environmental Politics of Vodou, New Orleans Style

By Joseph Laycock

…especially, race. This matrix of associations is evident in the example of phone psychics like “Miss Cleo,” who uses an affected Caribbean accent. We also saw it in Pat Robertson’s gaffe following the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, when he claimed that the nation of Haiti had made a pact with the Devil. Glassman conforms to no stereotypes about Vodou. Born in Maine, her parents were of Ukrainian Jewish heritage but were not religious. S…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…ose proximity) or looking for “men posing as women,”, which is another Islamic criminal offence. In many cases, the official religious raiders bring media with them to the raids and permit the subsequent video footage – including faces and personal information about those raided – to be shown on national television. These blatant violations of the rights to association and privacy continue because politicians and police shy away from rebuking Jawi…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…eing together will not die, cannot die, will continue. My Sunday morning semi-wake semi-sleep semi-dream state wherein last year’s Charleston shooting merged with this past weekend’s Orlando massacre was more than a dream. My dream condition/wake condition, my condition of being almost-sleep/almost-woke, spoke something true. It spoke a dream-reality of black church-LGBT solidarity in a shared relation, a genesis shared. This condition awakened me…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…e “have been publicly flogged in Indonesia’s Aceh province since a new Islamic criminal code was enacted in October 2015.” From HRW Indonesia Research Andreas Harsono: People caned include hundreds of men and women punished for “victimless crimes” such as gambling, non-marital kissing, and extramarital sex. Under national legislation stemming from a “Special Status” agreement brokered in 1999, Aceh is the only one of Indonesia’s 34 provinces that…